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into Spain
fo
poor and miler~ble, thacthe richeft of them had noca thouta r.
~
Ducats to de(ray his Charges ; though to raife
chis
Money, he had
fold his
Horfe, and Cloaths, and the poor Furniture of his Hcníe : and though fo me of
them had poífeffions of Lands, and fome
littLt:
Rer.t, yet thc Revenuc was
fo
frnall, that it was fcarce worth locking afrer, and
fo
remoce, that th y
wen:
forced to kave andabandon it, as of no worth and value
to
them: for though
a
Perfon íhould commit his Efiate, in this manner, to the Truftand Mana"ement
of Friends ; yet
fo
tar is
Spain
remote from
Pene,
that oftentimes Friends
cake
advantage of difiance, and long abfence, and make that their own, which is on–
ly intrJfted to them
by
oth'ers: And chus much
I
can atteft, and aver upon
my own experience, who having left fome Eftate and lnheritance of
my
own
to the care ofanother Friend, he made uíe of that confidence l had in him
to
theat and defraud me of what appertained to me.
And this was che cafe of thefe poot: Gentlemen, who left their Eítates with
fome Friends, from whom they heard no farther afterwards ·; and enquired of ·
mefor them, after
I
came to
Spain,
to know of me whether they were ali
ve
or
not, and how·, or in wh;it manner
tbey
had difpofed of their Eftates : For
mv
part
l
was able to give them but an imperfeíl: -a~count of their matten, for
Í
was bue young, and could not look
fo
far back into the Efrates and Concern–
ments of other Men. And here
let
us leave our Pretenders on their Voyage,
the fuccefs of which
we
fhall coníider in ics due place, and in the mean
time
we
will
proceed to recount che Succ'eífes of that Empire, in relation to its own
Natural Lord.
CH A P.
VIII.
Thé Vice-King
defigm
to bring the Prince, who was Heir ,to
thís E111pire, jrom bis Retirement in t~e Mountains, to
pay
Ho111age
and halty
to his Majefly.
·
The
ways
and
mea_rp
which were contrived for ·doing the
[ame.
T
HE
Vice· King having difpatched thefe poor Gentlemen into
Spai11,
upon
,
the fuggefrions (as
we
have
faid)
of evil Couníellours, whoiníinuatedinto
him
dangerous Confpiracies, and civil Difturbances,· which thefe Men might
_machinate, by the lntereft they had with other Souldiers of inferiour degree :
and hereof there bad been fuch freíh Examples, that the Fears and Jealoufies of
the
like events might
very
reaíonably beappreh,ended.
Bue
I)OW
to
amufe, and
divert che minds of che People frorn fuch Tragical Plocs as thefe, and for better
fernring the Peace ofche Empite, Letters were wrote to
M1,nnoz.,
rhe Gover–
nour of
Coz..co,
and to
f?o11na Beatriz..
Coya
to
sonfid:er of a way,how they migh¡¡
in
a friendly and peaceable manner perfwade che
Prrnce
Sayri
Tupac
to leave his
Mountains, a!ld come and
live
among_ft the
Spani.<1rds,
who for 1iis encourage–
mem, wm1ld make h-im an allowance fufficient ro maintain bis Family and Equi–
page. T'his pro¡;iofition was'treated with th.e
Coya,
wh.ich was Sifü:r to the Fa–
ther of this Prince, who
was
the Legitirnate Heir to the Empire~ being
the
Soa
of
Meneo
Saca,
whom thoíe
Spaniards
killed, who he had proteél:ed and deli–
vered out of the ha neis of their Enemies, as'
i_s
relaced in the
7th.
Chap–
tcr
of
che
4th.
Book of chis
2d.
Pan. The
Infanta Donna Beatriz,
tho' it were
forno 0ther reaíon than to
fee
her Nephew in that City, and not witb expeél:a–
tion of being refl:ored to his Empire, r~ceive9 with gr~at readinefs, and goo?
will, che Command and Order ofthe
V
JCe-Ktng; an<l
m
puríuance tbereof d1-
fpatched away a Mdfenger, attended with
lndian
Servao1:s, to the M~untains of
Vi/lea
Pampa
where the
Inca
rnade h1s relidence: the Mdfenger himfelf was
a
I
fo
of
th~ Blood-Royal, to render the offer more
f
pecions, and more ealily ac–
cepted: His Journey was long, and much ·al;>out, an<l ovet ba? ways, by rea–
fon that the Bridges were broken down; bue ac length comrng to the Ouc-
guard9